Description:Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) covers all aspects of the study of language. All of the various fields of linguistics are included such as descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Contains some full text. Time Period: 1973 to present Sources: Indexes more than 1,500 serial publications and thousands of books, book chapters, and dissertations. Subject Headings: English & Linguistics, Psychology, Social Sciences (Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics) Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly Primary Materials: Books/e-books, Conference Papers, Dissertation and Theses, Journal Articles, Reviews Information Included: Abstracts,Citations FindIt@BALL STATE: Yes Print Equivalent: None Publisher: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Updates: Monthly Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Description:MLA International Bibliography is an electronic version the print index published by the Modern Language Association beginning in the 1920's. Subjects include literature, language, folklore, linguistics, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Contains some full text articles. Time Period: 1926 to present Sources: Indexes nearly 5,000 journals and series. Subject Headings: English & Linguistics, Humanities, Mobile Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly Primary Materials: Journal Articles Information Included: Abstracts,Citations FindIt@BALL STATE: Yes Print Equivalent:MLA American Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures, MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures Publisher: Modern Language Association Updates: Monthly Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Description:JSTOR allows you to search across approximately 2,000 journal titles from more than 50 disciplines. It contains complete backfiles of scholarly journals starting with the first issues, many of which date back from the 1800s. Although the majority of titles do not have the most recent 3 to 5 years available in full text, there are some which have the current issues available.
Note: Additional content has been permanently added to JSTOR, including archived journal collections and primary resources. Searches performed using the databases page link will include results from the additional sources, as will the link above.
Time Period: 19th century to present Sources: Provides the full text for approximately 2,000 journals. Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, Business, Education, English & Linguistics, General, Health, History, Humanities, Law, Mobile, Music, Philosophy & Religion, Psychology, Science, Social Sciences, Technology Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly Primary Materials: Citations, Journal Articles, Reviews Information Included: Full Text, Citations FindIt@BALL STATE: No Print Equivalent: None Publisher: JSTOR Updates: Daily Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Description:Project Muse is a full text database of journals in disciplines such as art, literature, history, political science, and economics. Some full text will come from JSTOR, in PDF format. Time Period: 1993 to present Sources: Indexes more than 300 journals. Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, English & Linguistics, History, Humanities, Philosophy & Religion, Psychology Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly Primary Materials: Books/e-books, Citations, Journal Articles Information Included: Journal Articles FindIt@BALL STATE: No Print Equivalent: None Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Updates: Daily Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Description:MagillOnLiterature Plus contains information about 8,500 authors of fiction, poetry, and drama. It has biographical essays covering the 2,500 most studied authors. These entries include up-to-date lists of each author's principal works and current secondary bibliographies. The database also has more than 400 comprehensive essays on specific literary genres, themes and settings. Time Period: Sources: More than 36,000 analyses of literary works, 16,000 biographical entries, 150 volumes of reference works, and 8,200 book reviews. Subject Headings: English & Linguistics, Humanities Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly Primary Materials: Reference Resources Information Included: Abstracts,Full Text,Citations FindIt@BALL STATE: No Print Equivalent: None Publisher: EBSCO Updates: Daily Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Description: Literature Criticism Online provides access to scholarly and popular commentary from books and periodicals, broadsheets, pamphlets, and encyclopedias published in Gale literary criticism titles. Content is delivered in an online format that matches the print originals. Time Period: 19th century to present Sources: Contains articles and reviews from more than 1,100 volumes of literary criticism. Subject Headings: English & Linguistics, Humanities Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly Primary Materials: Books/e-books, Magazine Articles, Reference Resources Information Included: Full Text, Citations FindIt@BALL STATE: No Print Equivalent:Contemporary Literary Criticism Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Poetry Criticism Short Story Criticism Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Publisher: Gale Updates: Daily Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Description:Literature Resource Center is a great source for background information on major authors and their works. It includes biographies and basic literary criticism of the works of novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of the most-studied authors. Consider using in conjunction with Literature Criticism Online. Time Period: 1973 to present Sources: Indexes or contains the full text of more than 480 magazines or journals and 42 reference titles. Subject Headings: English & Linguistics, Humanities Scholarly or Popular: Semi-scholarly Primary Materials: Information Included: Full Text FindIt@BALL STATE: No Print Equivalent: Contemporary Authors Publisher: Gale Group Updates: Daily Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Listed below are some books about Ancient Greek and Latin literature. More are available; to find other works of Ancient Greek and Latin literature, try searching OneSearch.
Perseus Digital Library, hosted by Tufts University, offers Ancient Greek and Roman texts as well as commentaries on them. Many texts are available in both their original language and English, and the two can be viewed side-by-side.
The Latin Library offers ancient texts in Latin drawn from a patchwork of sources. Information about contributors and editions used is available on the "credits" page.
This page, hosted by Fordham University, offers tables of Greek ligatures - characters that represent a pair of letters, combined so they can be written with a single stroke.